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Visitors to PUBA classes
In 2006 a variety of guests came to PUBA classes. They include:
PUBA 600 - Core Year:
Legislative Processes Module:
Experienced legislative lobbyist, Bob Toyofuku (below, left), and colleague, Joy Kobayashi (below, right), visited the Core Year module on legislative processes on Tuesday, November 14. Mr. Toyofuku and Ms. Kobayashi reviewed the details of Hawai'i's legislative process and discussed the strategies and purposes of lobbying the Legislature.
The module also featured several public officials: Representative Roy Takumi (a PUBA alum), Senator Gary Hooser, Representative Hermina Morita, and City Councilmember Nestor Garcia. Rep. Takumi and Mr. Toyofuku also chaired a mock legislative hearing at which participants testified on recent legislative bills.
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Hawaiian Perspectives Module:
In late November and early December, the Core Year explored issues of indigenous peoples generally, and of Native Hawaiians in particular. Professors Hokulani Aikau (Political Science) and Melody MacKenzie (Law) discussed definitions of indigenous peoples and reviewed the historical and legal issues experienced by Native Hawaiians. Former Hawai'i State Supreme Court Justice Robert Klein visited the Core Year to talk about the "Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization," or Akaka, bill. He also reviewed the recent decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in the Doe v. Kamehameha Schools case. Finally, the class spent a Saturday morning at Ka'ala Farms on the Waianae coast with Mr. Butch DeTroye.
- Professor Hokulani Aikau, left, Professor Melody MacKenzie, middle, and Justice Robert Klein, right.
- Ka'ala Farms, Butch DeTroye.
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PUBA 660C - Public Budgeting:
This past spring, Paul Brewbaker, Vice-President with Bank of Hawai'i and Chair of the State of Hawai'i's Council on Revenues, visited the Program’s Public Budgeting class (PUBA 660C) on April 5, 2006. Brewbaker is teaching "Hawai'i's Economy," an elective in the Department of Economics, and the two classes combined to discuss the challenges of forecasting Hawai'i’s state revenues and the role of the Council on Revenues in the state’s budgeting process.
Here, Brewbaker describes the historical path of Hawai'i's General Excise Tax revenue.
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